{"id":1026,"date":"2012-03-10T12:10:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T17:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/industrial-authority-got-wetlands-easement-from-lowndes-county-for-private-prison-site.html"},"modified":"2012-03-10T12:10:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T17:10:59","slug":"industrial-authority-got-wetlands-easement-from-lowndes-county-for-private-prison-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/industrial-authority-got-wetlands-easement-from-lowndes-county-for-private-prison-site.html","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Authority got wetlands easement from Lowndes County for private prison site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before selling it off to a private landowner who<br \/>\nwho two years later got a contract with private prison company CCA<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/02\/sweetheart-deal-for-private-prison-site.html\"><br \/>\nto resell it for almost 100% profit<\/a>,<br \/>\nthe Industrial Authority acquired a road easement through county-owned wetlands<br \/>\nfrom Lowndes County:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/topics\/incarceration\/2012-02-23--private-prison-site\/IMAG0398.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/topics\/incarceration\/2012-02-23--private-prison-site\/tiny\/IMAG0398.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFurther, Grantor hereby conveys a Non-Exclusive Ingress and Egress Easement<br \/>\nin that certain 0.685 acre tract or parcel of land<br \/>\nsituate, lying and being in Land Lot 153 of th 11<small<sup>th<\/sup><\/small><br \/>\nLand District of Lowndes County, Georgia.<br \/>\nSaid 0.685 acre tract being designated as &#8220;0.685 acres &mdash; Ingress\/Egress<br \/>\nEasement reserved for future right-of-way extension&#8221;<br \/>\nas depicted on that certain map or survey<br \/>\n&#8220;Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority&#8221; dated<br \/>\nSeptember 8, 2004 and recorded September 9, 2004 in Plat Cabinet A, Page 2659,<br \/>\nLowndes County records, to which<br \/>\nmap and survey is hereby referred in further aid of description.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An easement that a private landowner might have more difficulty getting<br \/>\nfrom the county.<br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t that convenient?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/topics\/incarceration\/cca\/vlcia_cca_plan.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/topics\/incarceration\/cca\/vlcia_cca_plan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThis is the wetland that<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/02\/cca-private-prison-vdt-front-page-today.html\"><br \/>\nhas not yet been approved for that purpose by the Army Corps of Engineers,<br \/>\naccording to Ashley Paulk.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nBy the way, that wetland easement in 2004 was<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/history-changes-the-closer-you-get-to-valdosta.html\"><br \/>\nbefore Brad Lofton was hired in 2006 to be executive director of VLCIA<\/a>,<br \/>\nso the very peculiar history of this bit of land can&#8217;t all be blamed on him.<br \/>\nThe appointed Industrial Authority board and the elected<br \/>\nLowndes County Commission<br \/>\nand Valdosta City Council<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/02\/who-are-the-local-leadership-who-approved-ccas-private-prison.html\"><br \/>\nare all also involved.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before selling it off to a private landowner who who two years later got a contract with private prison company CCA to resell it for almost 100% profit, the Industrial Authority acquired a road easement through county-owned wetlands from Lowndes County: Further, Grantor hereby conveys a Non-Exclusive Ingress and Egress Easement in that certain 0.685 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,1113,14,16,740,2,19,72,88,21,22,3,54,178],"tags":[679,1747,8817,2933,2858,2819,8701,7,8734,2745,2744,6,8726,180,8749,1013],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-economy","category-environment","category-forestry","category-government","category-history","category-incarceration","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-planning","category-politics","category-transparency","category-valdosta-city-council","category-vlcia","tag-ashley-paulk","tag-brad-lofton","tag-cca","tag-corps-of-engineers","tag-corrections-corporation-of-america","tag-easement","tag-georgia","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-p3","tag-public-private-partnership","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia","tag-wetlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}